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[quote=Anonymous]When my kid was in middle school 2 years ago in the Bethesda area, her school was hyperfocused on LBGTQ+ awareness and other social issues. Every summer, for the reading assignment, there would either be a poorly written book about bullying in school, or a poorly-written book about gender questioning. I couldn't care less what the content is. Conversations about gender and bullying in middle school are obviously important. But can schools present QUALITY content? My kid would come back and criticize the assemblies, saying: "we had an LBGTQ soccer player who presented, and it was boring, all she did was spent the entire time describing her own brilliant career and tell her we could be anything we wanted to be - like, I already knew that. I'd rather be in class".

I used to be the coordinator who selected arts and science shows and workshops at my kids' elementary, and my FIRST order of business was finding truly intelligent and professional performances. I did it for years, and you know what? It's a ton of work! There's a whole industry of performers and presenters who market themselves to schools, and most of them are very low-level and not worth the price, and even less worth the children's time out of class. It took me hundreds of hours to find an excellent historical actress, for example, who would re-enact important women in history for the children; or a playwright who would inspire kids to write their own mini-plays and perform them at the end of the year. Or a mathematical magician who wowed the kids but also made them do math.

Let's hope your school's drag queen is actually intelligent and has interesting stuff to say. But the choice smells very strongly of performative virtue-signaling. 
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